# S3 Storage increased 10x over 8 months **URL:** \ **Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\ **Tags:** help, nexus-repository, aws, cloud-storage, storage-management\ **Created:** [February 29, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/s3-storage-increased-10x-over-8-months/12171 "2024-02-29T14:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![nirfrankel.nf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@nirfrankel.nf](https://community.sonatype.com/u/nirfrankel.nf)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/s3-storage-increased-10x-over-8-months/12171/1 "2024-02-29T14:43:12Z")
Previously our nexus repo bucket was stable at 2TB, early July we upgraded the version of Nexus to 3.32.0-03 from 3.17.0-01. The date of this coincides with the increase in storage. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/uploads/communitysonatype/original/2X/0/0bcc3955a93cb2b5868da162072b26d1962615e9.png) I’ve used the S3 Storagelens to get a breakdown of the objects, we thought it might be failed multipart uploads, but it’s only a relatively small amount (20 GB), and versioning represents 16.8TB of the bloat. The bucket has ballooned from 2TB to 26.3TB. So there’s at least 7.5TB that is unaccounted for, also versioning was enabled prior and the storage was always consistent at 2TB so really it’s 24TB that is unexplained. I’m not familiar with nexus at all, but I’ve been reviewing documentation and threads trying to understand what the volumes and chapters are. There’s a content directory with 43 vol directories and each has 47 chapter directories, from what I understand that’s a storage scheme of nexus. We also see the tmp directory there, with versioning represents a few TB. Finally there’s a directory called content with a subdirectory nexus-repository-docker, this is populated with thousands of directories named similar to this 00078b7e-d388-46a1-aa2d-355918d5cdfe, all with 2 .byte and 2 .properties files --- _[View the full topic](https://community.sonatype.com/t/s3-storage-increased-10x-over-8-months/12171)._